The state finally stepped in

It has been a long time since my last post, but I felt it necessary to post about the state finally stepping in when it comes to Jill Schnedler! She has been breeding Great Danes for a while and only recently applied for a license. I guess she didn't realize she needed to have an inspection done and they had some "concerns" she had to address.  Lately, it has been bitterly cold and she keeps her Danes in her UNHEATED, UNINSULATED, DRAFTY BARN!  I've been in this barn before and it's one of the coldest barns I've been in. The state seized 25 dogs, a cat, and she surrendered a stallion (who required sedation to be trimmed by the farrier).

The state will investigate more, there will be charges and court proceedings. Wonder if the court will be open to the public? Anyways, you don't have to believe me. Below are the links to 2 different news articles about it!

Bangor Daily News - 20 dogs seized from Hampden property in an unheated barn

News Center Maine - 20 Great Danes and other animals seized from Hampden home

Sweet As Sugar

Can you guess who I saw the other day?
If you guessed Jill Schnedler, you are correct!

I was at the tack shop getting more fly spray and treats and catching up with my friend who works there.  After a few minutes of chatting, my phone rings and it's my mom so I start wandering around the store, talking to my mother.  I'm sitting in the back on the demo saddle and when I hop down, I hear my friend say "Oh hi Jill!" in a very audible voice and I hear Jill Schnedler's voice...

Immediately my blood boils a little and I get the panic.

She responds, "Oh hi!  I'm just here to look at bridles."

I look to my right and there are the bridles so I know I have to find somewhere else to be.  I watch her circle around the store to her right so I head to her left to avoid her.  My boyfriend immediately realizes I'm trying to hide from someone.  He doesn't know who, but he stands between me and said person to block any view of me.  I'm standing at the door, ending my call with my mom and trying to say bye to my friend.  Somewhere along the line, Jill got a spy on me and just as I'm about to leave, I take one more look and I see a blur of her dark hair and purple sweatshirt.

Jill: Oh hi Kille!  So nice to see you
(running through my head:  Nice?  Less than two months ago you said my mom threatened your life!)
Me: Oh hi Jill!  It's nice to see you too!

From here, she proceeds to say sorry about Louize (who passed almost 3 years ago now) and asked if it was the adenoma my mom suspected and blah blah blah.  I then mentioned that I heard about her horse, KC, who she very recently lost (hinting at the fact that I hear things and I know what is being said about her and about me.  Whether she got my subtle hint or not, I have no idea.

I tried very hard from that moment on to hint that I was leaving and wanted out of the store.  For nearly four years I have managed to avoid seeing and talking to her.  It was NOT nice to see her, as she has been the one to spread horrible rumors about me and my mom.

Would someone really greet me so nicely if it was true that I left in the middle of the night, did not pay board for seven months, stole a bunch of her stuff, ruined her credit, posted her medical history on Facebook, and threatened her life?  Honestly?

My boyfriend and my friend are all a witness to this.  And the other employee and the few customers wandering.  The part that really got me is that she seemed genuinely curious and concerned about how I lost Louize.

She's good at giving a show and acting SO nice to me.  Unfortunately, I know her true side and this is how she can so easily manipulate people.  Very very sweet and kind to everyone in person but turn your back for even a second (or four years) and her true colors show through.

Just nuts...

Everything at the barn and in my life has been pretty steady and quiet. Nothing crazy happening for the most part until my mom was scheduled at work to be in a room she normally is not working in at the hospital. One of her coworkers thought it was kind of funny and snooped a bit to figure out why.

As the tale goes, a certain woman named Jill Schnedler came into EMMC for some procedure. I do not know what it was for and I really could not care less. Jill Schnedler asked a bunch of the staff if my mom was working and where. When she found out she was, she requested my mom be somewhere far away and busy because apparently my mom is a stalker! WHAT?!  Of all the things, my mom is not a stalker and of all the people to stalk, Jill would not be the one to go for. In fact, if Jill disappeared off the face of the planet we might celebrate!

It has been since July 4th, 2012 that we have seen or been around Jill. We really want nothing to do with her. I cannot stand the woman for all the trouble and lies she has been causing and spreading.

Jill Schnedler at Coldbrook Equestrian Center is just getting crazier and crazier. Just let it go, lady! We have tried but you keep butting your way into our lives over and over and will not give it a rest.

Water Test

Another thing I seem to always forget to mention: Someone really should go out to Coldbrook Equestrian Center and ask for a water test. New horses that go to Jill Schnedler's barn refuse to drink her water. I can't quite blame them! I wouldn't drink water that smelled like rotten eggs either. Jill Schnedler doesn't drink it either, she drinks bottled water but the animals can drink her water. That's not an issue at all. Fun fact: She told me rabbits could die drinking her water because of the iron content. Too much iron in a rabbit's diet can kill them. Imagine what that's doing to the horses and dogs and any other animals she has on her overcrowded property.

Slander

It seems as though Jill Schnedler really can't help herself but to spread lies in order to try to convince people to stay at her barn and financially support her.

This brings us to the latest update on Jill Schnedler's slander against me.

Sandy, my barn owner's girlfriend, worked at Blue Seal for over a year. She just quit in order to manage my barn full time and to stay at home. A Russian woman was going in to Blue Seal and asking if she could sell pumpkins there to support a local "horse rescue". When asked where the rescue was, Sandy was told it was Jill Schnedler's barn. Well, the owner of Blue Seal already doesn't like Jill because Jill came in for hay, filled her truck to see how many bales she could fit before paying, and then just drove off without paying for any of the bales. Obviously, the answer was no to selling the pumpkins.

Another woman was coming in to Blue Seal to buy a few bags of grain or some bales of hay here and there for Jill Schnedler. She was taking some riding lessons with Jill and she felt like she could help out with her "rescue" by giving Jill some grain and hay whenever she could. After a few months, her money started running a bit short and Sandy warned her that Jill would bleed her dry, just as Jill Schnedler tried to do to me and my mother. She accepted the warning but was sure it would never happen to her. After a while, this woman, whom I do not know other than through this account from Sandy, stopped taking lessons and stopped buying grain and hay for Jill because she just couldn't afford it anymore. She had bills to pay, like a responsible adult. Jill messaged her once or twice on Facebook about different things the "rescue" (Manes Danes & Everything Maine) needed but this woman figured if she ignored Jill then Jill would just go away. After two months without going to Coldbrook Equestrian Center or speaking to Jill Schnedler at all, Jill Schnedler texts this woman out of the blue and asks if she can buy some grain and hay for her "rescue". She says that she can't afford to keep buying this stuff for her. In response, Jill sends her this long text ranting and raving about ME! WHAT?! This woman was reading this text to Sandy at Blue Seal one day and says "Jill is texting me about this person... Kiley? Kill? I have no idea who this is." Sandy reads this and says "OH! That's Kille. She's at my barn now. She lies about Kille all of the time! She left because Jill Schnedler was trying to rip her off."

Not only does Jill spread her lies about me (still), because every responsible woman in her 40s who is trying to run a business should be bad mouthing and slandering previous boarders, but she is still trying to suck people in to her business. She has this woman who was trying to sell pumpkins conned into possibly moving her horses to Coldbrook Equestrian Center. This woman has also set up a webpage for Jill. ( http://www.coldbrookequestrian.com/services.html )

The most unbelievable thing is that Jill thinks she can charge $400 for board at her barn that is currently leaking whenever it rains, needs a new roof, and the indoor arena is falling over. Slowly, but surely, it will fall over because the foundation is rotting away. She would be lucky if anyone wanted to pay $200 to stay in that heap of trash! Oh, but it gets better. There is a $50 discount for "prompt payment". So pay ahead and you only have to pay $350. When I was there 2 years ago, I was paying $350 for board... unless you ask Jill Schnedler. I didn't pay board for 7 months according to her. Even though I was there only from the last day of February through July 3rd. I have no idea how 7 months got squeezed into that amount of time!

I have considered sending Jill a cease and desist through a lawyer but Jill Schnedler, Manes Danes & Everything Maine 4H, Manes Danes & Everything Maine Equine Animal Rescue, and Coldbrook Equestrian Center are not worth my time, effort, or money.

I'm waiting for the day this Russian woman is bled dry by Jill... and her horses are starved. I feel bad for her, her teenage daughter, and her two horses already!

In other news

So a couple of days ago I took Yada and a girl from the barn rode Stitch on a short trail ride. I was happy to see that Stitch did very well! He even overcame his fear of bicycles. Those big scary things with two wheels that could jump out and bite you at any moment! We would have gone farther but both horses started acting like jerks because of the bugs and wouldn't go too far from the barn so we eventually had to turn back because it was useless to force them further. Next time, we'll go with some other horses as well to boost their confidence and have a good time.

I also hear that someone, unknown to me, drove by Coldbrook Equestrian Center on a 70 degree day and saw a horse with a rain sheet on (though Jill never puts rain sheets on her horses, let alone when it's that hot out) and you could still see the bones of the horse's back and hips. That's disgusting that this happened and she's calling herself a rescue since this is the very horse I went to New Hampshire with Jill to get two years ago! She wasn't that skinny then and we thought she was thin when we got her. 

Word travels quickly, Jill Schnedler and people are watching. I wish the State or Town would step up and do something but only time will tell, I suppose. Karma's a bitch and she's waiting, I'm sure. I'll just sit back and wait it out.

Scammed her way out?

It appears as if Jill Schnedler has scammed her way out of foreclosure on her property... for now. How long can she really keep this up? She hasn't paid on her mortgage since May 2012! Keep that in mind if you ever want to go to Coldbrook Equestrian Center, or Manes Danes & Everything Maine, or Manes and Danes Equine Rescue. She's only a "rescue" to receive state funding to feed her animals, I'm sure, because she doesn't have the money herself.

In other news, a woman called the Animal Control Officer on my barn owner. She claimed the cows and horses were ALL skinny. Well, being a responsible owner and knowing the horses aren't skinny at my barn, I called the Town Office and filed a complaint against the ACO. The State came by the farm and even said some of the horses were FAT! Imagine that. Apparently we aren't the first to complain about this ACO and "the State is going to deal with [her] on their end". Good. She obviously has no knowledge of large animals.

I also started working at Acadia Woods Kennel in Bar Harbor as the office manager. Yay! I have been bathing dogs and helping the groomer there on Fridays since mid-January and the former office manager submitted his notice and the owner needed someone to fill the position so I was offered the job! The job comes with a free apartment above the kennel so I no longer have to drive to work, I get two days off a week, I work only 10 hours over the weekend total, and I can kennel my dog here for free. All pluses, especially the kenneling because my dog has separation anxiety and doesn't fair well in the apartment alone, hence why he's never lived in apartments with me. We tried for one month and that was disastrous.

Another great perk about this job: I get to have Chase regularly groomed! I don't have to travel anywhere and the groomer here (who is fantastic) doesn't have to feel rushed when grooming an 83-lb Rough Coat Collie. Nothing is worse than when someone brings in a dog with tons of hair and wonders why he/she won't be done until 5pm. Sorry, but it takes HOURS to completely dry a dog with that much hair... and collies dry quickly in comparison to dogs like Newfoundlands and German Shepherds because their hair doesn't hold the water in. Poodles also dry quickly but they also require a lot of brushing and clipping. Luckily, Collies don't require clipping and I hate groomers who clip Collies unless it is 100% necessary or specifically requested by the owner. Chase has left 4 groomers over the years due to their decision to clip him after we clearly stated "Do not clip him anywhere unless there is a mat you cannot remove."

Gosh being a groomer is tough! I try to help out when I can, even when it's my day off and I have nowhere better to be.

There is just one disadvantage to living and working in Bar Harbor: I'm 45 minutes away from my horse (as long as tourist traffic doesn't make it worse). At least I only work until 5pm and I have some days off. That means I do have time to visit Yada at least a few times a week! I'm going to start planning it out better so I can see her a minimum of 4 times a week and we're going to really get into the work-out routine for her to build up more muscle, start taking some lessons with Carrie Dixon, and get her in shape! I do love living in this area so far and on weekends I'm going to start going out and enjoying the island more! Adventuring Acadia, hiking, and whatnot. It's going to be fun!

Foreclosure?

As online research has revealed, as of February 3rd, 2014, Jill Schnedler at Coldbrook Equestrian Center at 214 Coldbrook Rd, Hampden, ME has until May 3, 2014 to become current on her mortgage payments or she will be in foreclosure and evicted from the property. Jill Schnedler has not made a payment to her mortgage since May 1, 2012. I happened to be there as a boarder during this time and I remember her fighting to get the money together to make this payment and it wasn't a full payment, either. Who knows when her last FULL payment was made? Probably never...

Since learning about this foreclosure, I have also learned that Jill Schnedler is still advertising for summer camp at her barn! Instead of "riding camp", as it once was, she now has "Farm Experience" because she doesn't have the horses to have campers riding anymore. Instead, you have to pay a $100 non-refundable deposit for camp and the rest of the camp fee must be paid BEFORE camp starts. All "Farm Experience" camps are $175 per week. If you fail to cancel two weeks in advance, you are still responsible for the whole $175. You must pay the $100 non-refundable deposit or she cannot guarantee you a spot in camp. In other words, she wants everyone to jump up and just pay her the money because it cannot be returned no matter what you do. Easy money, I would say! She also has one week of "Eventing Camp" and one week of "Dressage Camp". Both of these fields, she knows little as she hasn't taught either in a number of years and cannot execute any of it herself any longer. These both cost $250 for the week. You are still responsible for the whole fee if you do not give two full week's notice!

My favorite part about this: Camps start, and go every single week, in mid-June. Her foreclosure date is May 3rd. She wants everyone to jump on the wagon and pay the $100 non-refundable deposits for easy money and then no one can get their money back and she does not have to teach camp because she will be foreclosed on and evicted from the property. Quite the scam she has going here!

Please, everyone, beware of Coldbrook Equestrian Center and its scam artist, Jill Schnedler. She will milk you for everything you have and still try to get more out of you!

On another note:

There are more rumors about me coming from Jill Schnedler! In late April 2012, I drove down to New Hampshire to get a horse who she had at her barn in previous years: Farrah. Farrah is owned by a woman in Bangor, Cindy, and Cindy requested Jill to go to New Hampshire to get her back as she was not working out where she was at the time. Cindy gave Jill some gas money to drive down and we took it from there, we met up with Jill Schnedler's old high school friend (and she bought us a fabulous lunch) and then continued home. Just miles away from Coldbrook Equestrian Center, Jill Schnedler's truck ran out of gas. We called my mom to fill a gas can and fill it up to get us back as Jill had no money for gas at this point. Not only did Jill Schnedler never pay my mom back for this gas but she dared to ask if my mom would help pay for the gas for a horse that has nothing to do with us! How absurd! Jill Schnedler also tried to get my mom to like Farrah so maybe my mom would want to lease her and make it so Jill Schnedler did not have another mouth to feed with the money she did not have. She also asked us if my mom would let her borrow my mom's new Tundra. I was not even allowed to drive it so of course, we declined. No way were we going to let her dogs destroy my mom's truck!

Now the story goes like this: Apparently my mom wanted Farrah and FORCED Jill to go to New Hampshire to get her and then we REFUSED to pay for gas and then LEFT Farrah in her care and took no responsibility.

If you ask me, I think we could ask Cindy, Farrah's owner. I'm pretty sure she will say that she asked Jill to get Farrah and I'm pretty sure I was asked to drive down with Jill Schnedler. Quite honestly, I would have rather not driven down in her unregistered, uninspected Excursion that has no driver-side mirror and only one windshield wiper in the pouring rain on that dreary, awful day. I could have thought of a million other better things to do. We never forced her to do anything. We were nothing but helpful and appreciative until we realized we were just being used and abused by her.

I really hope no one else gets sucked in like that. However, whoever is managing her Coldbrook Equestrian Center and Manes Danes & Everything Maine Facebook pages is being sucked in. Jill Schnedler cannot even afford internet or her smart phone to update them herself and has conned someone else to do that advertising for her.

Please stay away from this scammer!

So it has started...

So quite a bit has happened since Tuesday.  Tuesday she said "I still value your friendship and I hope we can talk this over when you have cooled off". Yeah, I'm not likely to believe that. Well, I was posting on Facebook about moving my horses and many friend inquired out of curiosity. Jill posted on one of my statuses "Good luck to you. Hope all goes well with the girls." My mom posted back with "Too bad Jill didn't like to pay her employees. Funny how she has money for an expensive Great Dane puppy but not for hay, grain, electric bills, roofing, fixing the plumbing to have running water in her house, hauling the rotting trash away or registering/inspecting her truck, but she can spend a fortune on ANOTHER Great Dane she can't afford to feed or do vet care...." Shortly after that, Jill blocked me. Oh, my friendship meant MILLIONS to her, clearly! So I blocked her on Louize's profile back. After I posted on her wall "Two can play that game. Consider this bridge burned."

I decided to post my previous blog post on Facebook. I posted it publicly so the entire Facebook community can view and share it. It's already had 2 shares by two of my friends who have had bad run-ins with Jill. It's apparently had many views already! Good... the truth needs to be spread since the other 3 people I know decided to keep their stories private so Jill could drag them through the mud without being able to defend themselves. No fair.

Things started to settle out and things were calm until Jill posted a status one of my friends took a screen shot of and sent to me. It said "What a NORMAL boarder, can it be???!! I won't know how to act!!! Welcome back Nicole, bullet and Jazz!!! It will be nice to actually get paid for a change!!!" I'm sorry. She was paid in full for every month I was there. The day we moved Louize we paid her board that very day including a $20 tip for trailering her. In March my mom gave her a $200 bonus for feeding Louize 5 times a day chopped apples and carrots. It was a payment and thank you for going the extra mile to help Louize in her time of dire need. In April, we paid full board for Louize and a pro-rated amount for Yada when she arrived the 16th. We paid full for May for both horses. For June, we refunded the money we lent her for hay and grain by deducting it from board. For July, we deducted the $200 for my early rent from board to refund that since we knew she wouldn't pay it back and didn't have the cash. And then we were only there for 3 days in July do she got $464 extra for that month after we left.  She can't dare say we didn't pay. Even if we hadn't, that $464 extra from July would more than cover most of board for 2 horses.

I took this very status screen shot, posted it to my wall, and let my friends have free access to it! Then I posted a screen shot of the status, my caption, and my mom's comments of "It is nice to not have a barn owner who uses the supplements I bought for Kille's horses on all her horses, who doesn't expect me to "gift" her multiple bags of grain extra every month or to pay for entire trailer loads of hay as "gifts" which weren't gifts! I don't know of anyone who has a good story to tell at the end of it all about Jill Schnedler and CEC!" and " Jill would know about not paying bills, since she owes the electric company $6500 and only still has power because she fraudulently indicated to them she uses a nebulizer. She has gone into foreclosure/Chapter 7/Chapter 11 for not paying her mortgage, and people like vets and farriers won't come out for her animals because she doesn't pay her bills. She doesn't register her car, doesn't have a valid safety inspection - who is SHE to judge normal anyway?" to her Coldbrook Equestrian Center Facebook fan page for everyone to see including every student and parent who likes the page on Facebook. If she deletes it, I can just tag the page in the picture and then everyone can see it still!

Now, I'm just waiting for the Fireworks to start. Two can play this game. For future reference, don't piss off a Branson. Just not a good way to go. She should have just shut her mouth and played nice and I would have shut mine. I didn't even post my note until she started getting nasty and one of her helpers tried defending her with the lies from her mouth.

But fun fact, Saw Chuck and Carrie Dixon at Triple D today! They were smiling and joking and having a grand time! I haven't seen them that happy in a long time! No wonder, Jill speaks poorly of them behind their backs. She complains about their riding technique, teaching, horses, personalities, the way they work their horses, and everything else she can think of. Apparently they used to ride there back when they first met years ago! They had their horses there and helped build the house on the property and everything. They have wonderful memories of the place! Wouldn't it be great if they boarded there too? I really hope they change barns. They deserve to go to a place where they can actually ride without summer camp always in the way and where the barn owner actually respects them.

Louize and Yada's adjustment post will go up tomorrow. I want it to be separate from this. So stay tuned! Maybe more drama will pop up when Jill realizes I posted that picture on her page! Mwahahaha!

Leaving CEC from my view (without the lies that Jill throws out)

So before Jill Schnedler can slander my good name in the mud as she has done with many of her past boarders, I am going to clarify to the public my side of the story.
We'll start from the beginning. On February 29, 2012, I moved Louize out of Starwalk to Coldbrook Equestrian Center so Louize wouldn't be starved to death. You know the background to that one already.
Things might have been fine if she didn't think we owed her money all the time. If you give her a penny, it's a gift. If you loan her $100, it's a gift. My early rent of $200 was a nonrefundable deposit apparently. That wasn't the agreement on that. I lived there for 3 days. I want my rent back since her house was UNLIVABLE. My mom paid her in advance for riding lessons twice. Once was $100 and another was $200 plus two times that my mom bought her some bags of grain totaling at least $100 for grain. When my mom stopped taking lessons due to feeling uncomfortable at the barn, she wanted to be paid back in full so she deducted it from Jill. Jill got so mad and offended and said "You've been so generous, I thought those were gifts! You just handed me money so I just assumed it was a gift!" Sorry... when someone hands you $200 you can't seriously just think it was a gift out of the kindness of her heart.
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She hasn't even paid me for the two weeks of summer camp I put in. I should be getting $240 by the original agreement that I would get $150 a week but $50 per week would be "rent" but since I'm not living with her, I should get the full $150, right? Not in Jill's head. She took out $60 from my summer camp money for a Judy Westlake lesson so $300 - $60 = $240. Oh well. I know I won't get paid. She got two weeks of free labor out of me. And then she tried to tell the police officer we had with us that she was waiting for my mom's check to clear before she paid me because she thought my mom had stopped payment like at Starwalk. She cashed it Friday. She's lying. She tried to make the cop believe her. Sorry, I witnessed Jill open the check from the mail and head to the bank right after.

Well, in short, to get my $200 back, my mom deducted it from the $700 for board. She gave Jill $500 and explained it through an email. All was good until I never got paid for summer camp. So oh well. Jill can keep the $38 of gas money I lent her once, the $240 for summer camp, the $10 tea kettle, the $20 iced tea maker, the $100+ futon upstairs, and my $100 washer and dryer. I'm just going to walk away from those. But if she DARES have the balls to say I owe her even one penny, not going to happen.

Sorry Jill. I’m not going to keep this quiet. I want the community to know about this. I’m not letting you lead people into your plea of innocence and saying you’re always the victim and that everyone else tries to use you. Sorry, who’s using who? I was getting paid $3 an hour for summer camp! I think I’m being used. Oh, wait. I wasn’t paid. I was EXTRA used. Not including all those days March - April when I did stalls, bring in, hay, water, feeding, etc. with you EVERY fucking day. I didn’t ask to be paid for those, but after all I have done for YOU I don’t owe you shit.